On 11/29/2012 4:19 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: > departments in kinda interesting ways. There now seems to be things like > "Metadata" or "Systems" groups that are distinct from "Digital Repository" > or "Applications" groups. Catalogers and the people who work on the ILS are > often completely segregated from the people who work on the new flashy > grant-funded projects. Yes, this isn't new, and it is a problem. The former, it kinda seems to me, tends to have more > women members while the latter is often lacking. Code4Lib draws mostly from > people working in these new-ish groups, Code4Lib didn't used to, when I attended the second code4lib conf, the vast majority of the presentations and presenters were NOT about grant-funded work or "digital repository" work, and the majority of people I met at Code4Lib were not working on such things. I miss that. Code4Lib was in fact the only place I knew of for people working on traditional library use cases, not on grant-funded projects, trying to innovate with technology and keep libraries relevant.